Forget-Me-Not Farm Chaff

It got an absolute slating on here IIRC. I don't think people liked the packaging and assumed it was stuffed full of sugars.
 
I looked it up before in the last thread from their facebook page.

Forget-Me-Not Farm Complete Chaff combines chopped and pelleted straw with a sprinkling of alfalfa, oil, molasses and a vanilla flavour with added vits and mins. It's a complete feed, so when fed at the recommended levels of 500g per 100kg bodyweight, no additional vits and mins are needed. It provides 6.5MJ/kg Digestible energy, 5% sugar and 2.5% starch.

at 5% sugar, it's the same as Fast Fibre, it's lower in sugar than hi fi lite and much lower than the likes of mollichaff.

A lot of assumptions were made because it came in a pink bag.

Would still prefer no sugar to low sugar.
 
ester said:
I think we decided it was actually better than some alternatives ie no alfalfa and no molasses :)
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Yup, mainly chaff, soya oil, vits and mins. I am against feeding soya oil to anything but that's a personal gripe of mine that no-one much is bothering about yet.
 
I work in a feed shop and currently have samples of it in, it smells sickly sweet and is vanilla favoured. It's made by Dengie but they don't put their name to it! I'm guessing it's aimed at children as the packaging is covered in ponies and lovehearts.
 
I thought the same when seeing the packaging but researched further and it's actually a decent wee chaff. I think I may try it in the summer when I use less as the dengie bags last me all winter .
 
Yes, I was just wondering what the natural sugar content of, say, oat straw is? Tried a google .... failed to find it :p
 
My only thought when looking at the bag was to feed the reccomended amount needed to get all the vitamins and minerals that bag would last the average 500kg horse about 5 days, and at over £8 a bag that's very expensive, much more expensive than a balancer that does the same job or a small handful of hifi with a vit + min supplement in.
 
Think oat straw is 3 - 4 % sugar. Unmolassed sugarbeet is about 5%

I saw this product as being aimed at replacing the applechaff/own brand chaff that a lot of the kid's ponies at my last livery yard were fed and in that context it's a step forward.
 
I think this is potentially quite a useful product as there are plenty of people who just use a handful of chaff to mix in powder supplements and if it is low in sugar and starch and comes in a small bag it would be good. For example for me a bag of dengie good doer lasts 8 months as it is such a big bag and I am sure it probably does not remain so fresh after being open for so long.

Maybe they need to do an adults version with a different bag!!

criso said:
Think oat straw is 3 - 4 % sugar. Unmolassed sugarbeet is about 5%

I saw this product as being aimed at replacing the applechaff/own brand chaff that a lot of the kid's ponies at my last livery yard were fed and in that context it's a step forward.
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criso said:
Think oat straw is 3 - 4 % sugar. Unmolassed sugarbeet is about 5%

I saw this product as being aimed at replacing the applechaff/own brand chaff that a lot of the kid's ponies at my last livery yard were fed and in that context it's a step forward.
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Thanks, that's really helpful. Agree with SO1, this looks like a fairly useful product :p
 
I saw this today and thought it looked ridiculous. Who is it aimed at. My daughter would love that to feed to her pony but since I buy the feed and she is three...!
 
Fw that is exactly who it is aimed at.

Very cutesy and to engage children in the management of their own ponies, for what its worth this is always a good thing as long as the feed is suitable for ponies :) xx
 
My local feed shop got a couple of bags of it dropped off the other week and I am sorry, I did indeed burst out laughing when I saw it! I immediately felt sorry for all the mums out there when their dear little princess scweams and scweams until they get their pwecious wittle powny a bag of pink powny food!

To be fair I never bothered looking into it so wouldn't know what it contains except very exspensive straw!
 
SO1 said:
Maybe they need to do an adults version with a different bag!!
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Wouldn't be the first to package very similar items for different markets ;) I'm told Baileys no.4 topline and condition and baileys No.11 race horse cubes are pretty much the same but leisure riders would worry about feeding something aimed at racehorses.
 
Buds_mum said:
Fw that is exactly who it is aimed at.

Very cutesy and to engage children in the management of their own ponies, for what its worth this is always a good thing as long as the feed is suitable for ponies :) xx
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The day I need to buy pink food to get her interested is the day the pony goes to a new home. She is obsessed, no cute way to engage her needed. He is all she thinks about.
 
Buds_mum said:
Fw that is exactly who it is aimed at.

Very cutesy and to engage children in the management of their own ponies, for what its worth this is always a good thing as long as the feed is suitable for ponies :) xx
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Yes and the "bad", "cheap" sweet feeds don't get the same idea and hope kid's will pester parents to buy similar pink packets. Buying things because of the look of a packet is not how I would want my children to learn how to feed their ponies.
 
criso said:
Wouldn't be the first to package very similar items for different markets ;) I'm told Baileys no.4 topline and condition and baileys No.11 race horse cubes are pretty much the same but leisure riders would worry about feeding something aimed at racehorses.
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They are, the only difference is that the Racehorse Cubes are fully balanced. The No. 4 aren't so you need to buy a balancer as well.
 
Clava said:
Yes and the "bad", "cheap" sweet feeds don't get the same idea and hope kid's will pester parents to buy similar pink packets. Buying things because of the look of a packet is not how I would want my children to learn how to feed their ponies.
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Exactly and it panders to the whole oh we need to have everything cutesy wootsy for children to have any interest and staying power. Er no we don't, they need to learn life is not all pink.

It's just occurred to me the feed shop woman probably thought I was looking a it keenly instead of incredulously when I was inspecting it today :rolleyes::D
 
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